Jules and Jim: the seminal French new wave movie

An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the fortitude of love, Jules and Jim, directed by François Truffaut, was a worldwide smash in 1962 and remains every bit as audacious and entrancing today.

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, Truffaut came across it in the mid-fifties while browsing through a second hand bookstore. With the author’s permission he crafted the film incorporating newsreel footage, photographic stills, freeze frames, dolly shots – all advanced techniques for the time.